Cutting back in more or less systematic fashion the crown of a tree but leaving a main trunk to 1.5 m or so, with the object of harvesting small wood and browse, of producing regrowth beyond the reach of animals or of reducing the shade cast by the crown.

The traditional practice of cutting all the branches from a tree, usually willow, at about six feet above ground so that the re-growth cannot be eaten by stock. The harvested timber was used for a variety of purposes.

a traditional woodland management practice in which the branches of a tree are cut back every few years to encourage new long, straight shoots for harvesting. Differs from coppicing because the cuts are made at sufficient distance from the ground to prevent them from being eaten by animals.

Pollarding is a woodland management method of encouraging lateral branches by cutting off a tree stem or minor branches two metres or so above ground level. The tree is given a year to regrow, after the initially cutting, but once begun, pollarding require annual maintenance by pruning. This will eventually result in a somewhat expanded (or swollen) nodes topping the tree trunk with multiple new side and top shoots growing from it.